Quotes about History
God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.
— David Platt
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.
— George W. Bush
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
— Marilyn Monroe
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
— Audre Lorde
We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.
— Ronald Reagan
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
— Charles Colson
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
— Ernest Hemingway